Gettysburg Address

a. Four score and seven years ago, our fathersbrought forthupon this continent
a. a new nation:

b1.conceived in liberty,b2. and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

c1. Now we are engaged in a great civil war…c2.testingc3. whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated…
c2. can long endure.c1.We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

d1. We have come to dedicatea portion of that fieldd2. as a final resting placed3. for those who here gave their livesthat this nation might live.

e1. It is altogether fittingandproper that we should do this.e2.But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate… we cannot consecrate…we cannot hallow this ground.

f. The brave men, living and dead,f. who struggled here have consecratedit,f. far above our poor power to add or detract.

e1. The world will little note, nor long remember,what we say here,e2.but it can never forget what they did here.

d1. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicatedhered2. to the unfinished workd3. which they who fought herehave thus far so nobly advanced.

c1. It is rather for us to be here dedicated tothe great task remaining before us… that from these honored deadc2.we take increased devotionc3. to that causec2. for which they gave the last full measure of devotion…c1. that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain…

b2. that this nation, under God,b1. shall have a new birth of freedom…

a. and that governmenta. of the people… by the people… for the people… shall not perish from this earth.

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Summary outline

A. Our Fathers
B. Conceived in Liberty

C. A Great Civil War
D. To Dedicate

E. We Cannot Dedicate/Consecrate/Hallow this Ground
F. The Brave Men, Living and Dead, Who Struggled Here
E. What They Did Here